Somnambulant Hearts

The seventeen stories in Somnambulant Hearts reflect those liminal spaces of the ‘in-between’ where reality playfully shifts between expectation and understanding. Embodying elements of the uncanny, psychogeography, and slipstream, these speculative stories exist within the interstices of genre, on the borderline where lives encounter a twist of the disconnect and are never the same again; a space in which existence is a construct created by ourselves, yet so easily undone when it is inhabited by others.

“Andrew Hook’s slipstream Somnambulant Hearts is as deeply unsettling as it is darkly compelling. Each innocuous story untethers a mundane human condition and subtly distorts it, unmooring it from reality into an escalating aura of unreality. The collection perfectly enmeshes the texture, specificity, and lethal eeriness of Hook’s writing.”
—Eugen Bacon

“Andrew Hook’s Somnambulant Hearts is a collection of quietly devastating precision, in which ordinary men are undone by guilt, obsession, and the uncanny weight of their own pasts – sleepwalking through lives of their own making until something forces them, brutally, awake.”
—Mike O’Driscoll

“Andrew Hook’s stranglehold on the weird tale tightens its grip. Delivered in a cool, calm, almost too reasonable a bedside manner, each story here vibrates with enigma and foreboding.”
—Ashley Stokes